Comment on Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image

ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Because the venn diagram of “people who would maliciously do something like this” and “people with good enough photoshop skills to make it look realistic” were nearly two separate circles. AI has added a third “people with access to AI image generators” circle, and it has a LOT of overlap with the second group simply because it is so large.

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  • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Really? I remember tons of nicely photoshoped pictures on Snopes. There was a lot of trolling by people with skills going on.

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    • TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Those remained on email chains. Unlike social media of today where anyone can generate any image and send it to millions of gullible people in a second.

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      • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Email chains? You’re thinking about some early internet 40 years ago. Twitter has 20 years, Instragram 15. People were sharing fake images on social media long before AI. I just can’t imagine anyone responsible making decisions like stopping trains based on a single image on the internet. You know easy would it be to post an image of a forest fire on Twitter? You don’t even have to fake it, simply take an image from some other fire. You make decisions like that based on credible calls, not something you saw online.

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• DragonOracleIX@lemmy.ml ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It took skill to do this before. Hardly anyone with that level of skill and time would do this. Now the dumb idiots have access to that skillset because of AI doing all the work for them.

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• Vitaly@feddit.uk ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The thing is you actually need some skill to do it in Photoshop, but know every dumb fuck who knows how to read can do shit like this.

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  • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So? People with skill don’t troll? Clearly the dumb person here is the one who believed the fake. What does someone else’s skill has to do with it?

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• Rhoeri@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It doesn’t require skill anymore. AI has enabled children with the ability to pretend they have a skill, and to use it to fool people for fun.

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• SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  These are more realistic and far far easier to make.

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